May 2, 2014 Playlist

"Changing Horses" by The Incredible String Band (1969)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
The Incredible String Band  "Changing Horses"  1969 (UK-Scotland)
The Incredible String band was one of the premiere UK hippie folk bands of their era (they were both more purist and more original than the other biggie, Fairport Convention - who, like ISB, were produced by Joe Boyd).  Their career lasted quite a while (thirteen albums in nine years), and had a number of interesting twists and turns (refusing to be filmed at Woodstock thus missing their chance at wider fame, adding their girlfriends to the band, then giving up drugs and becoming scientologists). For whatever reason, ISB and similar hippie folky music of yesteryear seems to be having a resurgence of interest lately.  An Incredible album that seems to be a polarising favorite/dud is the 1969 (first drug-free) album Changing Horses. Personally, I've always thought it was a gem (psychedelic folk that takes the folk part as serious as the psych part) and in some ways I even prefer it to their more celebrated earlier albums
(N) = New Release
 
Artist Song Album Year Country
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Damaged Bug Hot SwellsHubba Bubba (N)2014 (Castle Face)USA
Trin TranIt's A Burn
   / Dark Radar
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USA
Peaking LightsLo HiLucifer2012
USA
Connan Mockasin I'm The Man, That Will Find YouCaramel (N)2014 (Mexican Summer)New Zealand
 
 
The Incredible String Band
Dust Be DiamondsChanging Horses
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1969
UK (Scotland)
The Incredible String Band
CreationChanging Horses
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1969
UK (Scotland)
Mimi & Richard FariņaChrysanthemum
Reflections In A Crystal Wind1965
USA
Nick DrakeBlossomFamily Treerec. late 60's, rel. 2007
UK
   
 
Tele Novella Don't Be A StrangerDon't Be A Stranger EP (N)2014 (self release)USA
Neneh Cherry WeightlessBlank Project (N)2014 (Smalltown Supersound)Sweden/UK
The Diaphanoids Our Own Private ElsewhereLSME (N)2014 (Tirk)Italy
Cibo Matto MfnHotel Valentine (N)2014 (Chimera)Japan/USA
Pink Mountaintops North Hollywood MicrowavesGet Back (N)2014 (Jagjaguwar)Canada
   
 
The Amboy DukesFor His Namesake
Migration1969
USA
The TurtlesSurfer Dan
The Turtles Present The Battle Of The Bands1968
USA
Butthole SurfersButthole Surfer
Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac1984
USA
EsquivelSurfboard (A.C. Jobim)
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (CD compilation)rec. 1967
Mexico
Stereolab with Herbie MannOne Note Samba / Surfboard (A.C. Jobim) Aluminum Tunes (CD compilation)1998
UK/France/USA
John BarryFlorida Fantasy
Midnight Cowboy Original Motion Picture Soundtrack1969
USA
William ShatnerTheme From Cyrano / Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan)
The Transformed Man1968
Canada (Quebec)
Bob Dylan & The BandClothesline Saga
The Basement Tapesrec. 1967, rel. 1975
USA/Canada
Bob Dylan & The Band (without Dylan)Don't Ya Tell Henry (Bob Dylan)
The Basement Tapesrec. 1967, rel. 1975
USA/Canada
   
 
Herbie Mann I'll Remember April
Flute Brass Vibes & Percussion1961
USA
Eric Dolphy April Rain
Hot & Cool Latinrec. 1960-61
USA
Roland Kirk I Talk To The Spirits
I Talk To The Spirits1964
USA
Hubert Laws Gymnopedie #1 (Erik Satie)
In The Beginning1974
USA
 
  
The Bad Plus The Rite Of Spring, First Part: Adoration Of The Earth (Igor Stravinsky)The Rite Of Spring (N)2014 (Sony Masterworks)USA
      
   
   
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